Preludes and instants by Willy Correa de Oliveira: a compositional research

• Grant number: 14/13685-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2015
• End date: April 30, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Music
• Principal Investigator: Mauricio Funcia de Bonis
• Grantee: Vitor Ramirez Lopes Cardoso
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

These research aims to analyse the compositional process used by the brazilian composer Willy Corrêa de Oliveira in Instantes e Prelúdios for solo piano, writed in 1977. These pieces are a important object of study by syntetize the compositional thought of Willy in his period from 1970 until 1980, which is caracterized by the use of radial polarizations idealized by the french theoric Edmund Costère, by the musical metalanguage operated in citations and by the isomorfism between concret poetry and music. Aware of this, we undertake in this research to analyse the musical semiotic worked by Willy Corrêa de Oliveira in his Instantes e Prelúdios, with possible incursions in the works of Pignatari and Nattiez. This relations are consequence of the Willy's studies about the musical discourse while operator of a own language, but still linked to a historic referential of musical practice.